adire;
textile
- Museum number
- Af1934,0307.292
- Description
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Cloth (adire) composed of two lengths of imported European machine white calico cotton, sewn together by hand. A repeating design has been drawn on this by hand in starch resist, consisting of two rows of stars alternating with two rows of leaves. The cloth was then dyed in a single shade of light indigo, and the starch washed out, leaving the design in white against blue. Two corners of the cloth have been cut away.
- Production date
- 1909
- Dimensions
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Length: 207 centimetres
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Width: 140.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Part of the group of 83 cloths dyed with designs in indigo in the Beving collection (Af1934,0307.221 to 303). For comment see Af1934,0307.221.
This is one a group of eight Nigerian adire cloths (Af1934,0307.290 to 297). The acquisition register records that all of them were stated by C.A.Beving to have come from Lokoja in Nigeria, the town on the junction of the Niger and the Benue. The label of the last of them is preserved and is annotated ‘obtained 1909’. This date almost certainly applies to the entire group. For further comment see Af1934,0307.290.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1934
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1934,0307.292
